Read 12 Non-Fiction Books in 2025

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28 participants (244 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

This was originally meant to mean one non-fiction book a month but life got in the way. And what does it matter if I read one a month as long as I read 12 total? Join me if you’d like! 

Challenge Books

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The Cold War: A World History by Odd Arne Westad

The Cold War: A World History

Odd Arne Westad

710 pages • hardcover • 2003

nonfiction history politics informative medium-paced
Spinning by Tillie Walden

Spinning

Tillie Walden

395 pages • hardcover • 2017

nonfiction graphic novel lgbtqia+ memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
Homebody by Theo Parish

Homebody

Theo Parish

213 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir young adult hopeful inspiring reflective fast-paced
Noise by Kathleen Raymundo

Noise

Kathleen Raymundo

30 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction comics middle grade emotional hopeful lighthearted slow-paced
They Called Us Enemy by Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

They Called Us Enemy

Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, George Takei

212 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction graphic novel history memoir race young adult emotional fast-paced
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror by Joe Vallese

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

298 pages • paperback • 2022

nonfiction essays horror lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

368 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction feminism memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 by Chris Payne

Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008

Chris Payne

496 pages • digital • 2023

nonfiction history music emotional informative reflective medium-paced
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

Lindsey Fitzharris

304 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction biography health history science dark informative reflective medium-paced
Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

Abby Norman

293 pages • digital • 2018 user-added

nonfiction feminism health memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced